Luke 6:22

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. BLESSED ARE YE WHEN MEN SHALL HATE YOU, AND WHEN THEY SHALL SEPARATE YOU [FROM THEIR COMPANY], [ aforisoosin (G873)] - whether from Church-fellowship, by excommunition, or from their social circles-both hard to flesh and blood. AND SHALL REPROACH YOU, AND CAST OUT YOUR NAME AS EVIL, FOR THE SON OF MAN'S SAKE. Compare the following: "Being reviled we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; being defamed, we entreat; we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day" (1 Corinthians 4:12). Observe the language of our Lo...

20-26 Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Luke 6:5; Luke 6:7. But some think that this was preached at another time and place. All believers that take the precepts of the gospel to themselves, and live by them, may take the promises of the gospel to themselves, and live upon them. Woes are denounced against prosperous sinners as miserable people, though the world envies them. Those are blessed indeed whom Christ blesses, but those must be dreadfully miserable who fall under his woe and curse! What a vast advantage will the saint have over the sinner in the other world! and what a wide difference will there be in their rewards, how much soever the sinner may prosper, and the saint be afflicted here!...

Verse Luke 6:22. _THEY SHALL SEPARATE YOU_] Meaning, They will excommunicate you, αφορισωσινυμας, or _separate you_ from their _communion_. Luke having spoken of their separating or excommunicating them, continues the same idea, in saying that they would cast out their _name_ likewise, as a thing evil in itself. By _your name_ is meant their name as his disciples. As such, they were sometimes called _Nazarenes_, and sometimes _Christians_; and both these names were matter of reproach in the mouths of their enemies. So James (James 2:7) says to the converts, _Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called_? So when St. Paul (in Acts 24:5) is called a ringleader of the sect of the Nazaren...

See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luke 6:21 THAT HUNGER NOW - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully what Luke has briefly, but there is no contradiction. Luke 6:24 These verses have been omitted by Matthew. They seem to have been spoken to the Pharisees. WHO ARE RICH - In this world’s goods. They loved them; they had sought for them; they found their consolation in them. It implies, farther, that they would not seek or receive consolation from the gospel. They were proud, and would not seek it; satisfied, and did not desire it; filled with cares, and had no tim

EXPOSITION LUKE 6:1 _The Lord_'_s teaching on the question of the observance of the sabbath._ LUKE 6:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SECOND SABBATH AFTER THE FIRST. The expression accompanying this note of time of St. Luke, "the second sabbath after the first," more literally, "the second-first sabbath," has always been a difficulty with expositors of this Gospel. The word is absolutely unique, and is found in no other Greek author. Recent investigations in the text of the New Testament have proved that this word is not found in the majority of the more ancient authorities. Of the modern critical editors, Alford and Lachmann enclose the disputed word in brackets; Tregelles and Meyer omit it altogether; but the Revisers of the En

BLESSED ARE YE WHEN MEN SHALL HATE YOU,.... For the sake of Christ, and his Gospel: AND WHEN THEY SHALL SEPARATE YOU FROM THEIR COMPANY; either from civil conversation with them, as if they were Gentiles and uncircumcised persons; or from their religious assemblies, and so may have respect to that sort of excommunication in use, among the Jews, called נדוי or "separation": by which persons were not only excluded from the congregation, but from all civil society and commerce: such a person might not sit nearer to another than four cubits, and this continued for thirty days; and if not discharged then, he continued thirty more t: AND SHALL REPROACH YOU: as heretics, apostates, and enemies to the law of Moses, as the Jews did reproach the Christians; AND CAST OUT YOUR NAME AS EVIL; or "as of evil men": as the Syriac and Arabic versions render it: this may have respect to the greater sort...

CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Son of Man the Lord of the Sabbath. (Luke 6:1)_ 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed. (Luke 6:6) 3. The Twelve Apostles Chosen. (Luke 6:12) 4. Blessing and Woe. (Luke 6:20) 5. Good for Evil. (Luke 6:27) 6. Instructions to Disciples. (Luke 6:32) 7. Warnings. (Luke 6:39 .)...

THE SERMON ON THE LEVEL PLACE. This is much briefer than Matthew 5-7. The sections in Mt. that illustrate the fulfilment of the Law are omitted; more stress is laid on love and mercy. Other parallels with Mt.'s Sermon are found elsewhere in Lk.; very little of Lk.'s Sermon (Luke 6:24; Luke 6:34 f. only) is not found in Mt. There are also differences of arrangement. LUKE 6:20. BEATITUDES AND WOES (Matthew 5:1 *). In place of eight blessings we have in Lk. four (shorter) blessings and four contrasted woes; in Lk. Jesus does not qualify the poor (or the hungry); they are, as with the Psalmist, the righteous, and will have their innings in the

THE INCREASING OPPOSITION (Luke 6:1-5)...

SEPARATE YOU, &c.. cut you off. CAST OUT, &c. Compare Deuteronomy 22:19. EVIL. Greek. _poneros._ App-128. FOR. on account of. Greek _heneka._ THE SON OF MAN. See App-98....